Pontins banned customers with 40 common Irish surnames including Boyle, Doherty and Gallagher using a secret blacklist titled ‘undesirable guests’ in bid to stop Traveller families booking holidays at its parks No10 led condemnation today, describing policy as ‘completely unacceptable’ EHRC launched an investigation last year after an employee blew the whistle A legally binding … Read more
Fund titans blacklist BP over green shift: Fidelity among City investors deserting oil giants – as clean energy plans fuel profit fears By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 Major City investors are blacklisting oil giants including BP over fears their plans … Read more
Engineers at Twitter successfully petition company to stop using racially-charged programming terms like ‘master’ and ‘blacklist’ Twitter will change references in code and official documents Engineers lobbied Twitter to stop using terms like ‘master’ and ‘slave’ The terms are commonly used to described certain programming processes Terms like ‘grandfathered’ and ‘man hours’ were also altered … Read more
Unscrupulous advertisers are mimicking the names of legitimate debt charities, research has revealed, raising fears that vulnerable people looking for help are at risk of bad advice. Since the start of April, nine companies purporting to offer debt advice have been placed on the Financial Conduct Authority’s blacklist of unauthorised firms, according to exclusive analysis … Read more